Word: assertiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Actually, Nixon was not fighting so hard over specific dollar amounts; the larger importance of the confrontation was symbolic. The President sought to prove that no spending program is more sacred than the general principle that inflation must be fought with Government austerity. Second, Nixon saw an opportunity to assert authority in a personal way. In his first year's dealings with Congress, the President suffered the Haynsworth defeat and the close call on the ABM. Now he has gone to the people and he has made a crucial veto stick. Congress may be more chary in the future...
...Clark, 55,000 Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts contend that they hold title to the Alaskan land because the U.S. did not purchase it from Russia in 1867; it bought only the right to tax and govern the territory. When Alaska became a state in 1959, the state began to assert claim to the area. It has seized 450,000 acres for itself. The natives are willing to give up all except 40 million acres ?10% of the state?at a price of $500 million and a 2% royalty on revenues from the surrendered lands. If they...
Other critics, not going that far, nonetheless maintain that much could be accomplished by a return to the old wage-price guidelines. Advocates admit that the guidelines collapsed while the Johnson Administration pushed a clearly inflationary budget policy, but assert that they would be much more effective when combined with the present credit curbs and tight budget. Heller suggests that Nixon set up a "watchdog" agency in which business and labor leaders would join in setting "ground rules" for what might be acceptable wage and price increases. He also urges that Nixon adopt the policy of "phone calls, behind...
...Richard Nixon will face-and win-a conflict with "a father-figure, some person of authority." Mao Tse-tung is warned to "beware of unleashing vital forces you might have trouble controlling." After an unsuccessful brush with passion, Gamal Abdel Nasser will "see a dream come true. You will assert yourself, push forward and conquer." No word on Israel's Golda Meir...
...Attack! A pin worn by NYA members bears the symbol of mathematical inequality, an equals sign with a slash mark across it. The teaching of eugenics, NYA authors feel, will help students learn of white supremacy; and that recognition, their reasoning goes, will give whites the will power to assert their superiority...